Areas of Research
There are several fields researched by CSAR. Physical simulations are implemented in CSAR's Rocstar software suite.
- Fluids and combustion - The study of how a rocket's fuels are ignited and directed in such a way as to provide thrust.
- Multiphase Flow
- Turbulence Modeling
- Multiscale Acceleration (via "time zooming")
- Propellant Morphology/characterization
- Propellant combustion modeling
- Structures and Materials - Analysis of the physical structure of a rocket
- Constitutive and damage modeling
- Crack propagation
- Multiscale materials modeling
- Molecular modeling of material interfaces
- Space-time discontinuous Galerkin Methods
- Computer Science - Development of advanced simulation and visualization tools
- Parallel programming environments
- Parallel I/O
- Parallel performance modeling and prediction
- Meshing
- Hybrid geometric/topological mesh partitioner
- Visualization
- System Integration - Bringing the available tools and resources together in an efficient manner
- Object-oriented integration framework
- Flexible parallel orchestration
- Stable component coupling and time-stepping
- Accurate and conservative data transfer based on common refinement
- Stable and efficient surface propagation
- Uncertainty Quantification - Determining accuracy and confidence in simulation results
- Clustering techniques for sampling-based Uncertainty Quantification
Read more about this topic: Center For The Simulation Of Advanced Rockets
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